Mackay v. Easton’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 619 · 1873
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The eases cited under the second objection are not evidence in this ease. The records of them are not before us. The reports of their decision in Howard may be referred to as expositions of law upon the facts there disclosed, but they are not evidence of those facts in other eases. * * * The general language of the opinion must be construed and limited by the facts of the case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.